About Mr. Gallagher

About Mr. Gallagher

I'm a current Mesa Community College student at Mesa Community College pursuing a degree in Elementary Education. I would ideally love to be a resource teacher for students with IEPs at the upper elementary level. That being said I believe elementary curriculum is unique in the fact every teacher is responsible for teaching all subjects. This holistic view of education is much truer to education than being highly specialized in subject. I look forward to teaching upper elementary as well because it puts you in a great position in which to be a strong influence in the person your students become once they are confronted with the freedom that middle school and high school allow. In my personal time I love to run and enjoy the outdoors. I personally find tremendous benefit to bringing the classroom outdoors and learning in a highly kinesthetic fashion.

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Standard Deviation

When learning about statistic measures of spread we fell on a very important subject as a class, standard deviation. A subset within standard deviation that I think is even more vitally important is normal distribution, or a bell curve. Having an understanding on this concept is vital to connecting knowledge of statistics to the world around you. For instance IQ is heavily based on how many standard deviation off the norm you stand. The average IQ score of 100 for example, represents a score in which 50 percent of the population scores higher than, and 50 percent scores lower than. Nature pretty accurately results in the bell curve as well. For instance a population has a wide array of outcomes in something such as eye sight, some members have perfect vision while others are left blind, but of course a majority lie somewhere in between. A helpful hint as to the percent of a population within the subsets of a a given standard deviation is 68/95/99.7 , What these values represent is ho...

Horse Racing Odds

This showcases how odds are used in a real world application.

Example of M&M class graph activity

This is an example of the M&M graphing activity and the bottom shows conversion to a pie chart utilizing Microsoft Excel.

On Effectively Teaching Geometry, Probability and Statistics

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